Byloke, Ghent
Medium
Hand-colored lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 10 7/16 × 14 7/16 in. (26.5 × 36.7 cm) Sheet: 14 3/16 × 20 3/8 in. (36 × 51.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1919
Accession Number
19.71.1(5)
Tags
About the Artist
Thomas Shotter Boys|Charles Joseph Hullmandel|Thomas Boys · 1803–1874
Thomas Shotter Boys was born on 2 January 1803 in Pentonville, London, and received his first professional training as an apprentice to the engraver George Cooke. When his apprenticeship concluded he crossed the Channel to Paris, a move that would transform his artistic direction entirely. There he encountered Richard Parkes Bonington, the brilliant English watercolourist whose fresh, luminous ren...